If you can't figure it out by reading the note, I'm still in high school! Now use the traffic map and my IP address to narrow down where I live and try to abduct me. I dare you. lol

Three years ago, I think, I remember feeling all disappointed in the FRC team because they'd procrastinated all season and were still building the robot at Peachtree (the name of the regional competition). So this year we ended up doing the same thing.
It gets better though; this year they scheduled us for the very first match, the first match after lunch, AND the very last [qualifying] match! So we went up for the first match having had absolutely no driver practice whatsoever. Plus the robot wasn't done, and because it was possible for balls to roll under the robot, which is illegal, we had a permanent "yellow card" penalty right off the bat.
Nevertheless, we ended up winning the first match, and because it was the first match we were able to say we were in first place for the first time in like six years! By the end of the qualifiers, we had finally finished the robot, painted it for the first time in like six years, and managed to get ourselves into I think 13th place. What that meant was that after the finalists were selected, we were only two spots away from being in the finals. :[ For some reason nobody in the top 8 picked us for their team even though we and Kell (who was only one place away from getting in) both set all-time records for performance for the state of Georgia at the world Championships. WTF?
So began the suspense! We knew that if two robots were to break, we could be called in as a backup team and play our way to Championships. One actually did and Kell was called up, so now we were first in line. Eventually it got to where the final match was in overtime, and if there were two ties and a robot broke on the red alliance we could get in. Imagine the suspense! Especially when there was a tie and the match went into double overtime!
Well, another tie didn't happen. So our only remaining shots at Championships were to win either the Chairman's Award (probability about 1.5%) or the Engineering Inspiration Award (probability maybe 3%). But then we did win the Engineering Inspiration Award! And - screw breathing a huge sigh of relief - I actually screamed in happiness.
Next on the list: printing more buttons, making trading cards, making a cape, redoing the bumper skirt, maybe building an arm, constructing a blimp, buying another sword at MomoCon, acquiring new shoes that look like Link's boots, making a couple new feet, building a display with a recycle bin, fixing the controls, actually learning to drive the robot, and probably something else that I forgot about.